Merit is applied. What it is applied to matters. There is danger in an excessive focus on the incentives of the marginal action. The action we take at the end. The person taking it. The problem with that is that everything we do compounds. If we are constantly starting again, if we are living hand-to-mouth, if we are working alone… life becomes an Etch A Sketch machine. Real merit, applied to nothing, produces very little. Real change takes time. Generations. We build on what came before, and the more powerful that is, the bigger the impact our actions will have. Universal Privilege would be celebrated. It would mean we, as a society, are building Capital.
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